Dr. Stephen Iacoboni is part of the baby boomer generation. Born in 1952, he came of age during the 1960s when the country was flushed in the bubble of the ideal American Dream. “I was raised as a Roman Catholic, and I was very faithful,” said Iacoboni, “but there are some inherent contradictions with Christianity,…

Commentary A lot of the racist policies and sentiment in the West in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including racism against aboriginals in Canada, had its roots in social Darwinism, an offshoot of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Unfortunately this doctrine is now being revived, this time in the name of critical race…

Commentary With the death in February of Tom Bethell (1936–2021), the refuseniks of what Orwell called the “smelly little orthodoxies contending for our souls” have lost an eloquent and redoubtable champion. Over the course of Bethell’s five decades as a writer (of seven books and hundreds of essays), the malodorous certitudes of political correctness have…

Commentary What has caused the diversity of life? In most schools nowadays, the standard answer is evolution. According to a 2009 Scientific American article, Charles Darwin, the founder of evolution, was well aware that his theory would undermine people’s faith in God. Originally a controversial hypothesis, evolutionary theory now enjoys an orthodox status in society….